This episode is a re-release of Paul Gessing’s appearance on the Forgotten America Podcast with host Garrett Ballengee, executive director of the Cardinal Institute for West Virginia Policy.

Forgotten America is a podcast about the many places that get flown over, driven past, or completely forgotten and the people who call these places home, and the unique challenges faced by rural America and solutions to those challenges. 

Garrett and Paul discuss some of the ways that West Virginia and New Mexico are different and similar from a public policy perspective.